BELLEFONTE — The equation was troubling: tell Jerry Sandusky to stop the abuse and risk losing access to Penn State football games, or "block that stuff out and focus on the positives."

A 27-year-old man, identified by prosecutors as Victim 7, testified today about the inappropriate quid pro quo he had with Sandusky in his preteen years, pushing aside the pain and embarassment of joint showers and awkward bear hugs in exchange for football tickets.

"I had sort of blocked out that part of my life. Going to football games, that sort of thing, I kept out in the open," he said. "The more negative things I chose to push to the back of my mind, like closing a door to an attic."

The negative things, he said, included: Sandusky squeezing his knee, running a hand up his leg and occasionally touching his penis during car rides; Sandusky cuddling with him in bed; and Sandusky rubbing up against him and picking him up while they showered naked in a campus locker facility.

"I'm repulsed by chest hair now," Victim 7 said. "I remember the feeling of it pressed up against my back and for whatever reason it made me hate it. I just hate chest hair."

Earlier this morning, the father of key prosecution witness Mike McQueary took the stand.

John McQueary said today he did not remember testifying at a preliminary hearing in Harrisburg in December. Dozens of reporters saw him there, as well as attorneys and a judge.

Even after seeing a transcript this morning with his name listed among the witnesses, the elder McQueary insisted that he never testified at the hearing, for two Penn State officials accused of covering up his son's report that Jerry Sandusky raped a boy in a campus shower.

John McQueary, testifying at Sandusky's child sex abuse trial, appeared puzzled as Sandusky's attorney, Karl Rominger, showed him the transcript.

"It says Dauphin County Courthouse," Rominger said.

"Can you tell me where that is?" John McQueary said.

"Harrisburg," Rominger said.

"I've been to a grand jury," John McQueary said.

"You don't recall going to the preliminary hearing?"

"No," John McQueary said. "I was not in that courthouse to my knowledge. Something's not right here."

The exchange, revealing a lack of recall for a hearing just seven months ago, clouded John McQueary's earlier testimony about the conversations he had with his son and a senior Penn State official in the aftermath of the alleged shower incident more than a decade ago.

John McQueary told jurors former university Vice President Gary Schultz said he was aware of Sandusky's reputation for allegedly abusing young boys before Mike McQueary reported the February 2001 shower incident.

John McQueary, the head of a State College medical group, said he discussed his son's report with Schultz a few months later, during a previously scheduled business meeting with Schultz and a colleague, Dr. Jonathan Dranov.

Mike McQueary testified Tuesday that he telephoned his father immediately after witnessing the alleged abuse and shared further detail of what he saw in a face-to-face meeting minutes later at his father's home.

John McQueary said he told his son to alert then-head coach Joe Paterno, which he did the next morning. Paterno, in turn, passed the information to the athletic director at the time, Tim Curley, and Schultz.

"I made Mr. Schultz aware that I knew of this incident and understood that Mike had met with him and told Coach Paterno and I was inquiring as to what had been done, if they followed up on it, if any information was needed," John McQueary said of their conversation at the business meeting.

"Mr. Schultz said that he had heard noise about this before, earlier than Mike's report," John McQueary said.

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